“When I heard these words, I sat down and wept, and mourned several days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Nehemiah 1 contains 11 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.